Gulfstream Park has an 11-race card On Saturday with first post at 12:55 p.m.

The feature tenth race is the $75,000 Game Face Stakes at seven furlongs on dirt for 3-year-old fillies that have not won a stakes race.

It is the tenth race with scheduled post of 5:54 p.m.

We will be on site and will have a preview and coverage on our blog which can be accessed on the menu bar on the home page of this Web site.

Tampa Bay Downs has a nine-race Saturday card with first post of 12:45 p.m. Our correspondent Bob Bauer’s selections for the Tampa Bay races may be found in the Handicapping section of the menu bar at the top of this Web site’s home page.

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*Saturday Nov. 3 -- the Gulfstream Park West meet, at Calder, will have the first two stakes races of its 2018 meet.

The $75,000 Cellars Chiraz is one mile on turf for 3-year-old fillies. The $75,000 Showing Up is one mile on turf for 3-year-old males.

*Saturday Nov. 10 -- Nine stakes races at GP West, all restricted to Florida-breds and all with $75,000 purses

*Saturday Nov. 24 -- opening day of 2018-2019 meet at Tampa Bay Downs

*Sunday Nov. 25 -- closing day of 2018 GP West meet

*Saturday Dec. 1 -- opening day of Gulfstream Park championship meet. The opening day card will feature the national Claiming Crown--with nine stakes races restricted to horses that during 2017 and 2018 raced at least once at or below designated claiming prices.